What Silent Book Club is Reading: June 2020
One of the things I look forward to every month is the Columbus, Ohio chapter of Silent Book Club meeting. Everyone brings their own book and reads together quietly for an hour, then we all nerd out about books afterward. If you're in the area, you should come hang out with us!
And, for the foreseeable future, you can hang out with us even if you’re not in the area since we’re meeting virtually! We meet on the second Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm.
For the first time since I started the Columbus chapter, I had to miss the meeting. I’ve been working 12-hour days in my day job (it’s a long story), so I called on longtime book club attendee Nichole to host for me. She did a great job!
Here's what everyone is reading this month:
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries by Emily Brightwell
New Erotica for Feminists: Satirical Fantasies of Love, Lust, and Equal Pay by Caitlin Kunkel, Brooke Preston, Fiona Taylor, Carrie Wittmer
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials by Reza Negarestani
Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
Origin by Dan Brown
I'll add my own: Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke.
There are Silent Book Club chapters throughout and US and several around the world, so if you're not in Columbus, OH, check the events on the SBC website to find one near you. And regardless of where you are, we’d love for you to join us virtually. Event info will be posted in the Silent Book Club - Columbus Facebook group.
In the meantime, I hope you’ll connect meaningfully with book nerd communities online, including the Silent Book Club Facebook group. (Note: the general Silent Book Club Facebook group and the Silent Book Club - Columbus Facebook group are two different groups.)
